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The public bond market needs a Gulf reopener with transparent pricing
Turbulent market conditions of the Middle East war have pushed bond issuers and investors to try new things
A swift response is tempting, but lenders should avoid kneejerk reaction
Talk of de-dollarisation has evaporated. The dollar market remains the undisputed king of financing
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With competition to win EMEA loans mandates heating up, lenders are making ever more aggressive pitches. But a surprising section of the market has stepped up to save the banks from themselves.
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As inevitably as a journalist bumping up against a deadline, the US Congress has run out of time to fund the government. In two weeks the US will default, unless some of the most pig-headed people in the Western world change their minds. But is there panic in the markets? No it’s business as usual. After all, what else can investors do?
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Hong Kong’s equity market was sent into a frenzy last week after it was confirmed that IPO talks between Alibaba Group and the city’s exchange had broken down, sparking a war of words in the press by senior management from the two sides. While it may seem ludicrous for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to let such a huge IPO slip through its fingers, it was the correct decision.
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The conditional pass through structure for covered bonds being marketed by NIBC is far from the sort of sweeping revolutionary change that some are suggesting. Rather it would resolve a number of problems that exist in the present covered bond structure and there is proof that other techniques that have similar effects have been easily digested by bondholders before.
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If market talk is to be believed, India’s financial regulator is finally scrapping its much maligned and highly controversial safety net mechanism. While this will go some way in helping the Indian equity market, the regulator needs to get out of the habit of wrapping investors in cotton wool.
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EM debt bankers patting themselves on the back for waiting until after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting to print deals owe more to luck than judgement. They should be encouraging issuers to take advantage of windows of market stability, rather than selling them the idea that they can predict the unpredictable.